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Showing Original Post only (View all)Okay, Glen Beck conservative, but not unthinking... [View all]
From the beginning, most people on the left were against going into Iraq. I wasnt. At the time I believed that the United States was under threat from Saddam Hussein. I really truly believed that Saddam Hussein was funding terrorists. We knew that. He was funding the terrorists in Hamas. We knew that he was giving money. We could track that. We knew he hated us. We knew that without a shadow of a doubt. It wasnt much or a stretch to believe that he would fund a terror strike against us, especially since he would say that. So I took him at his word.
[...] Now, in spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said: We shouldnt get involved. We shouldnt nation-build. And there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free. I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free. They said we couldnt force freedom on people. Let me lead with my mistakes. You are right. Liberals, you were right. We shouldnt have.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-liberals-you-were-right-we-should-never-have-gone-into-iraq/#ooid=93NGVjbjo0raDOtZnXY_HM5SIgTHeCSf
Am I crazy, or did Glen Beck make sense. I'm going to lie down for a bit.
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Shoot who? You sound like Glen Beck. Do you usually go from normal to fascist that fast?
Rex
Jun 2014
#22
So the millions he defined and trashed over the decades should just be forgotten about?
Rex
Jun 2014
#58
Glenn Beck and his ilk are utter fucking TRASH who have done a LOT OF DAMAGE to America
Skittles
Jun 2014
#63
Your hyperbolic response shows you are a fan of Beck's who took the proverbial wrong turn here.
WinkyDink
Jun 2014
#74
It means people just like Glen Beck, no offense but you are not even on that radar.
Rex
Jun 2014
#115
All this crying over a crappy GOP mouthpiece? Let us not forget what he has said in the past!
Rex
Jun 2014
#64
With Beck, I assume ulterior underhanded bullshit motive unless proven otherwise
Scootaloo
Jun 2014
#98
Thank you. I still can't believe that I have to beg for that in a "liberal" space.
genwah
Jun 2014
#38
He knows which way the wind blows. And pro-war audiences aren't getting any younger n/t
arcane1
Jun 2014
#4
essentially, who gives a fuck if he now finds it convenient to say he was wrong?
Skittles
Jun 2014
#80
Well if Glenn Beck didn't make a living on lying to his audience, I would care more.
Rex
Jun 2014
#10
We're smart enough not to fall for some BS notion of a kinder, gentler Glenn Beck
pinboy3niner
Jun 2014
#30
He said it to his dues paying audience. He's already on the line. What are you risking?
genwah
Jun 2014
#37
Series, if this is not a joke OP then the author needs to really read up on the GOP
Rex
Jun 2014
#78
So what? And, BTW, did we have any indication that the Iraqi people wanted to be free?
genwah
Jun 2014
#20
Now that's comedy! To talk of "joining with the enemy" but leading off with "BFF in the sky"!
JHB
Jun 2014
#100
Beck is just trying to change the frame of the argument, he's still attacking Democrats
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#52
That and he's implying Iraqi's want a dictator (which has been the subject of a few neo-con speeches
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#91
"I believed that the United States was under threat from Saddam Hussein." Sorry, but this shows
WinkyDink
Jun 2014
#72
Now that I read it a second time I realize he's saying the Iraqis fighting to get our puppet out of
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#90